Dharmendra is a SQL Server/Microsoft Data Platform professional with over eight years of experience. He enjoys helping others in the SQL Server community and does this by contributing on blogs, speaking at several SQL events. His passion and focus is to explore and share more and more on SQL Server.

Archives: November 2017

Since I started playing with Extended Events, it has been my favorite toy for performance troubleshooting. It was introduced in SQL Server 2008, and it provides a very rich method of collecting diagnostic data from SQL Server. You can get in-depth detailed information using extend event for troubleshooting which was…Read more

SQL Operation studio is a lightweight open source multi-os and multi-RDBMS tool. It provides a modern & intuitive database management experience on their platform of choice to DBAs, Developers, and Sysadmins. It also simplifies configuration, management and…Read more

The query execution plan is a map of work which SQL Server is going to perform to execute a query. It provides a lot of useful information like operators, cost, estimated rows, actual rows, predicate details, parallelism, and much more information to troubleshoot the performance issue.

If you hate things that are slow, I bet you certainly want to know the reason for the slowness. So, if you are SQL Developer and your query run slow, you would prefer to have query execution statistics so that you can figure out what causing the query to run…Read more

Indexes are a vast subject and well documented elsewhere on the web. But, it is still a very commonly asked topic. In order to improve your queries (applications) and databases performance, we create indexes.

But those created indexes may not be very useful over the period because of your application…Read more